TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Fractions have been left in the form a/b except for ¼ ½ ¾. A dozen or sooccurrences of 'nn a-b' have been changed to 'nn-a/b', mainly on pages 27-40,for consistency.
Footnote anchors in a table are of the form (a) and the correspondingFootnote is placed at the bottom of that table. Other Footnote anchorsare of the form [A] with placement at the end of that Chapter.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have beencorrected after careful comparison with other occurrences withinthe text and consultation of external sources.
More detail can be found at the end of the book.
A COLLECTION OF NOTEWORTHY CHAPTERS, ADDRESSESAND PAPERS RELATING TO RAILWAYS, MOSTLYPUBLISHED DURING THE YEAR.
COMPILED AND EDITED BY
SLASON THOMPSON
Manager of the Bureau of Railway News
and Statistics
Chicago
Chicago
The Gunthorp-Warren Printing Co
1910
| Page | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Pre-Railway Era in America | 5 | |
| By F. A. Cleveland and F. W. Powell. | ||
| First Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company | 21 | |
| By J. Edgar Thomson. | ||
| Railways and the Pacific Northwest | 45 | |
| By James J. Hill. | ||
| Southern Railways and their needs | 58 | |
| By John F. Wallace. | ||
| Problems Confronting American Railways | 66 | |
| By Daniel Willard. | ||
| The Railroad Situation of To-day | 80 | |
| By Frank Trumbull. | ||
| Transportation Charge and Prices | 90 | |
| By Logan G. McPherson. | ||
| The Freight Rate Primer | 107 | |
| Issued by the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co. | ...||